Here on this Fourth of July, the New Worlds Patreon is pivoting to talk about how we make colors. It’s more complicated than you may think! Comment over there . . .

The New Worlds Patreon loops back this week to deliver on the second installment of what I originally thought was going to be a single essay, with the darker vision of dystopias. Comment over there!

Every so often, a topic for the New Worlds Patreon grows beyond the scope of a single essay. So it is with what was supposed to be a post on utopias and dystopias — but let’s start on the nicer end! Comment over there . . .

Second time’s the charm? I thought a while ago that the New Worlds Patreon was done with legal topics, but then I thought up a couple more, of which this is the last. We’re looking at the different types of courts and what they’re for — comment over there!

Do we really need lawyers? Yes, yes we do — but also, it’s not hard to see why they’ve wound up with such a negative reputation. Yep, the New Worlds Patreon is taking a look at the legal profession . . . comment over there!

At Chez New Worlds Patreon, five Fridays in one month means an additional essay focused on some aspect of craft or theory. This time around, it’s the notion of worldbuilding that is “easy” for the reader vs. “hard” — comment over there!

The topic for this week’s New Worlds Patreon essay is just as vital to today’s society as it was to those thousands of years ago: how to get water to where we need it, and keep it out of where we don’t want it. Comment over there!

From nomadic peoples burning the terrain for better hunting to empires digging out transport canals for global trade, the reshaping of the landscape is the topic of this week’s New Worlds Patreon essay. Comment over there!

I do love me a good forest in fiction. That’s what the New Worlds Patreon is looking at this week — comment over there!

A new month means a new theme for the New Worlds Patreon! This time around it’s some topics covering our relationship with the natural environment, and we’re starting in a very primal place: underground. Cavemen, religious sites, and Hollow Earths, oh my! Comment over there . . .

I swear, the timing is coincidental: I planned for the final New Worlds Patreon essay of this month to be about rhetoric well before I wound up reading the books that sparked this post, nor did I read them because they would be research for this essay. It’s all a happy accident! But yes, this week we are talking about rhetoric and oratory, and you can comment over there!

The New Worlds Patreon promises peace between us and favorable terms of trade if you go read this week’s essay, on treaties. Comment over there!

Why do governments have ministers, and what kind of work do they do? That’s the question the New Worlds Patreon takes on this week — comment over there!

No, not the popular genre of romances. The New Worlds Patreon is taking a look at the practice that era was named for, having a formally recognized mismatch between the person on the throne and the person actually running the country. Comment over there!

The theme for the New Worlds Patreon this month has been the performing arts, so to close it out, we’re taking a look at something very challenging: how you can write down performances to be read by other people later. Comment over there!

The New Worlds Patreon is ready to strut its stuff upon the stage! Or at least to talk about the people who do so, and the types of stages they use. Comment over there!

The New Worlds Patreon will be talking about theatre very shortly, but first, a detour into a specific subcategory thereof: puppets! Comment over there.

To launch the New Worlds Patreon into its next year, my loyal patrons have voted for a topic I’m very fond of: dance! Comment over there . . .

It’s the end of the eighth year of the New Worlds Patreon! To close that out, we’re gonna be super classy — nah, just kidding. We’re going to talk about lying, boasting, and insulting people for fun. Comment over there!